The Very Hungry Gerrymandering Project

September 25th, 2017, 6:48pm by Sam Wang

Gerrymandering comes to the forefront. See www.princeton.edu for a video about standards for extreme partisan gerrymandering that we are advocating, based on simple concepts of partisan symmetry and basic statistics. The explainer is pretty spiffy!

Want to know how gerrymandering has gotten so bad in the last few decades? Here’s a history (with numbers) in The American Prospect. A sidebar explains the math.

Finally, we have an interactive website for you to explore the offenses: gerrymander.princeton.edu. It documents Congressional and state-legislature gerrymanders, including Wisconsin Assembly, the topic of next week’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Gill v. Whitford.

This is a really fine tool, and I hope it will be extensively used in legal evaluations of the redistricting after the 2020 census. Meanwhile, can PEC offer links to important state legislature candidates who will support non-gerrymandered districts after 2020?